If Corzine had stayed in the Senate, he would have been reelected with little trouble. But now, the GOP has a good chance of picking up his seat. I know this gives little comfort to the over-taxed citizens of The Garden State, but it will result in one more vote for Constitutionalist Federal judges.
I questioned Tom Kean at a recent JSA (Junior Statesmen of America) Convention. He's no constitutional Federalist. But he's better than Menendez.
Add up one more tally for the tax cuts and patriot act, but dont count on him for the judges.
I wouldn't count on Kean Jr. accomplishing anything, including getting elected to the Senate.
Why should any conservative vote for a candidate that is afraid to be seen with the Vice President?
Don't count on it. This state is full of ignorant voters, on both the right and the left. We already know what idiotic choices the left makes in NJ, but you may not be aware of the idiotic choices the right has made in NJ. In fact, some of our very own FReepers helped put an incompetent candidate up against Corzine last year (Forrester) by voting for the most far-right candidate in the NJ GOP primary (Lonegan)- a guy who had no chance at winning- essentially taking votes away from a moderate-conservative that could have at least had SOME differences from Corzine (Schundler). As a result, Corzine had no problems winning- Forrester was a Corzine clone, only he ran GOP. I'm pretty sure a sizable part of the right in NJ refused to vote for Forrester in November, helping Corzine out even more.
Now, these same FReepers are running around calling Tom Kean a "RINO" and saying they'll refuse to vote for him. Gee, that sounds like a real good way of bringing NJ back to the GOP. Sometimes, the "send a message by boycotting or voting for the most far right candidate" just becomes stupid. Kind of like New Jersey itself: stuck on stupid.
I'm sure I'll get flamed for posting this, but the truth is the truth. NJ Republicans have to wake up, especially the FReepers who essentially helped put Corzine into office last year.
We're involuntarily taking one for the team.
Well, all of us except the state's union workers. With all the talk of Corzine's about belt tightening, he's asked not a single thing of the unions. No layoffs, no givebacks, no nothing.
Of course, unlike the union leadership, we only get screwed by Corzine in the figurative sense.